For Media, ‘Birthers’ Are Big News; Socialists, Not So Much
Which is crazier: believing President Obama was not born in the United States or is actually a Muslim, or believing in total state control of the economy? If you answered the latter, you are probably not a journalist. The mainstream press went absolutely nuts over an August Pew poll showing that 18 percent of Americans believed that Obama was a Muslim. There was also considerable media chatter over a CNN poll that same month, which found that 27 percent of Americans thought Obama was “probably” or “definitely” born abroad. But so far, reporters have been eerily silent on a Rasmussen poll showing that 27 percent of Americans believe the federal government should “manage the economy” – as distinguished from simply providing services like Social Security or unemployment insurance. read more
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For Media, ‘Birthers’ Are Big News; Socialists, Not So Much
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